Sao Paulo's pumas under attack as urbanization threatens rainforest
Adrian Bogdan
SAO PAOLO Apartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from injuries suffered at the hands of mankind in Brazil 's Sao Paolo state. The Mata Ciliar refuge stretches over the equivalent of 40 football fields just 90 kilometers from the state capital Sao Paulo, Latin America's biggest metropolis. Twenty-five pumas and 10 jaguars are receiving treatment at the center, including Barreiro, a five-year-old puma named after the
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